Plaintiffs in Prop. 8 lawsuit first to marry in Calif.

Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, the lead plaintiffs in the case against the ban on same-sex marriage in California, show up at San Francisco's City Hall to be married by state Attorney General Kamala Harris Friday, just after an appeals court lifted an order that had held up such marriages.
Michael Cole-Schwartz

Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, the lead plaintiffs in the case against the ban on same-sex marriage in California, show up at San Francisco's City Hall to be married by state Attorney General Kamala Harris Friday, just after an appeals court lifted an order that had held up such marriages.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Friday lifted a hold on the ruling that invalidated Proposition 8, the same sex marriage ban, clearing the way for same sex marriage to resume in the state. And did they ever.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris rushed to San Francisco City Hall to marry the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that dragged on from 2008 until this week when the U.S. Supreme Court ended the case and began the speculation about how soon same-sex marriages would resume in a state that briefly allowed them five years ago.

Eighteen thousand marriages took place in 2008. The first one in 2013 was the talk of Twitter within an hour of the court ruling. Others quickly occurred, including one in Los Angeles between another pair of plaintiffs in the Proposition 8 case.